TONY BLAIR may claim he is not the ’wobbling’ kind. But the long shadow
of the Iraq occupation, the hostage crisis and Labour’s majority being
reduced to less than 30 seats at a general election were likely to leave
Blair, his ministers and Labour MPs wriggling uncomfortably in their
Labour conference...

A "GOOD kicking", a "bloody nose", a "slap in the face" - all the media
descriptions of New Labour’s disastrous election results had some
reference to being beaten up. They managed to break several records for
dreadful results. In the local elections they were the first government
...